1 NUR2459 Mental Health Exam 1/ Questions with Correct Verified Answers/ Rated A+
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy?✓ A health environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship ✓ Focus on the patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques ✓ Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
A nurse is assisting with systematic desensitization for a client who has an extreme fear of elevators.Which of the following actions should the nurse implement with this form of therapy?✓ Gradually expose the client to an elevator while practicing relaxation techniques
A nurse is assessing a client immediately following an Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) procedure. Which of the following findings should the nurse expect?SATA – ✓ Memory loss, Confusion
A nurse is planning care for a client following the surgical implantation of a Vagnus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) device. The nurse should plan to monitor for which of the following adverse effects? SATA ✓ Voice Changes, Cough, Neck pain
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2 A nurse us caring for a client who smokes and has lung cancer. The client reports, "I'm coughing because I have that cold that everyone has been getting." The nurse identifies the client is using which of the following defense mechanisms?✓ Denial
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? – ✓ "Tell me more about that" "Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? – ✓ Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique?✓ "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique – ✓ Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect?✓ Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness?✓ Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"?✓ Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration?✓ Repeating the same words in response to different questions
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